Planning And Architecture Office

About Us

"Clients come first in everything we do. Their needs , expectations and strategy provide the context for every project we do together."

Who We Are

PAO is widely recognized as a leading collaborative design firm. Working with clients, communities and colleagues, and through the collaborative efforts of our in-house urban planners, urban and landscape designers, architects and consultants, we develop innovative solutions to our clients' most complex challenges, creating not only the best designs today, but also the right designs for envisioned tomorrow. In addition to our solid professional expertise, our founders master scientific research and have an academic career. For us, science and design are the means to create a new and better reality.

vision

At PAO, our vision is to become amongst the largest and the most successful urban planning and architectural design firms in Egypt and the Middle East, and to significantly contribute to making our world a better place to live in.

Mission

At PAO, our mission is to be our clients’ preferred partner by using our innovative thinking, systems knowledge, planning expertise, and design excellence to achieve a better built environment.

History

In 2003, PAO was formed on its visionary founders' dream of creating a profession-leading firm dedicated to making the world a better place. While our official founding was in 2003, our founders had a distinguishable professional history dating back to more than 27 years.

Over the years we have expanded operations while responding to the various requests of our clients to cover a wide range of planning and architectural types and topologies, ranging from city planning and complexes' urban design to landscape of green corridors to design of commercial, industrial and cultural facilities to interior design of residential and office buildings. This diversity has become one of our core strengths, instilling within us the confidence to meet any planning and architectural challenge. Today, PAO’s talented employees serve clients in not only Egypt but throughout the Middle East.

OUR FOUNDERS

Aboulfetouh S. Shalaby

General Director

aboulfetouh@pao-eg.com

With a PhD from the Department of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University in Wales, UK (1999-2003), a MSc from Land-Use Planning Program, College of Arts & Science, University of Nevada, Reno, USA (1993 - 1995) and a BSc from the Architecture Department, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, (1989), DR. Aboulfetouh has over 30 years of academic and practical expereince.

Academic Experience

Instructor, Teaching Assistant, Lecturer, Associate Professor and now, Professor at Urban Design Department, Faculty of Urban and Regional Planning (FURP), Cairo University.
Editorial Secretary of Journal of Urban Research, FURP, Cairo University (2010-2014).
Member of the Urban Planning Systems of Desert and Coastal Environments, Council of Engineering Sciences, Scientific Research Academy.
Lecturer, the High Institute for Architectural and Civil Engineering, 15th of May City (2006-2007).
Researcher, “Teaching of Equal Opportunities in Degree Programmes in the Built Environment”, the Department of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University in Wales (12/02-1/03).
Researcher, “Aging Well: A European Study of Adult Well-Being”, Centre for Social Policy Research and Development, University of Wales, Bangor (10-12/2002).
Seminars Tutor, in BSc and MSc, Department of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University in Wales (11-12/2002).

Practical Experience

General Director of "Planning and Architecture Office (PAO)," (6/03- present).
Consultant to the ex-Minister of Housing, Egypt .
Urban Planning and Design Consultant, for the Ministry of Justice, Egypt (2010 – present).
Urban Planning Consultant, for "The General Organisation of Physical Planning" Ministry of Housing, Utilities and Urban Communities. (2004 – present).
Urban Planning and Design Consultant, for the Madinah, and Holy Makkah Municipalities through "Office of Ahmad Farid Mostafa, Consultancies on Architecture, Planning and Engineering," "Dar El-Rahmah Consultancy Office," and "Omranioun, Planners, Architects and Developers," Saudi Arabia (2004 – present).
Urban Planning and Design Consultant, for the Centre of Research and Urban Studies, Faculty of Urban and Regional Planning, Cairo University, Egypt (2003 – present).
Participatory Planning Consultant, Ministry of Culture, The National Organisation for Urban Harmony (NOUH) (4/2005 – 8/2006).

Mohie edeen S. Shalaby

Deputy Manager / Exective Director

mshalaby@pao-eg.com

Holding a PhD from the Department of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University in Wales, UK (2008-2012) , a MSc from the Urban Planning Department, Faculty of Urban and Regional Planning, Cairo University (2003) and a BSc from Urban Planning Department, Faculty of Urban and Regional Planning, Cairo University, (1995), Dr Mohie has 25 years of practical and academic experience.

Academic Experience

Lecturer at Urban Planning Department, Faculty of Urban and Regional Planning, Cairo University (2012- present).
Teaching Assistant, Urban Planning Department, Faculty of Urban and Regional Planning, Cairo University, Egypt, (2003 – 2012).
Instructor, Urban Planning Department, Faculty of Urban and Regional Planning, Cairo University,Egypt, (10/96 - 7/03).

Practical Experience

Deputy Manager and Executive Director of the Urban Planning Department of “Planning and Architecture Office – Dr. Aboulfetouh Shalaby” Cairo, Egypt (6/03- present).
Urban Planner and Industrial Ecology Consultant of "The detailed planning of Assfan City and Assfan Industrial Zone” through “Dar El-Rahmah Consultancy Office", Makkah Municipality, Saudi Arabia (3/04 - 9/04).
Urban Planning Consultant, for the Centre of Research and Urban Studies, Faculty of Urban and Regional Planning, Cairo University, Egypt (2003 – present).
Urban Planner, "Architecture and Urbanism Group," Dr. Hisham Bahgat and Dr. Ahmed Fahim, Giza, Egypt, (9/95 – 6/02).